Youngstown Radio Reading Service

Youngstown Radio Reading Service

The Youngstown Radio Reading Service, located in Youngstown, Ohio, is one of nine Ohio Radio Reading Services (ORRS) member organizations. [http://www.ohioradioreadingservices.org/Default.asp?page=23 Youngstown RRS ] ] Radio reading services provide the blind and vision-impaired with daily readings of a wide variety of topical printed materials.

The Youngstown Radio Reading Service (YRRS) provides a special radio receiver at no cost to its vision-impaired listeners. The radio station operates with the use of an FM radio subcarrier. Its main channel is: WYSU-FM, 88.5 MHz, Youngstown.

YRRS operates 365 days a year, from noon to 11:40 p.m., out of the Belmont Avenue Goodwill Industries building. As a non-profit organization dedicated to "turning printed material into sound " [http://www.ohioradioreadingservices.org/RunScript.asp?page=1&Article_type=General%20News&p=ASPPg1.asp Ohio Radio Reading Services - Home ] ] for vision-impaired listeners, YRRS has become a credit to the city of Youngstown. Its staff has earned several accolades for their dedication to service in the Youngstown area.Listeners are provided with daily broadcasts of local and national newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and books. The services of YRRS allow Youngstown's vision-impaired to be made aware of local, state, and national happenings, ads and sales at grocery and department stores, and special-interest topics such as recipes, comics, and popular book releases.

Volunteers from the Youngstown area create audio recordings for future broadcast. The YRRS building contains three sound-proof booths used for pre-recording 30-minute blocks of audio, as well as two rooms used for live broadcast.

Funding

Monetary support for the YRRS and other radio reading services comes from the United Way, state and municipal funding, endowments, grants, corporate gifts, community service organizations, fund-raising events and listener contributions.

References

External links

* [http://www.ohioradioreadingservices.org/ Ohio Radio Reading Services Home Page]
* [http://www.ohioradioreadingservices.org/Default.asp?page=23 Youngstown Radio Reading Service]


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